By Dan Mitchell, MLM Blog Correspondent

From The Tennessean:

Clavenda Watson was a health services coordinator until she lost her
job last month. Now, she's starting what she hopes will be her next
career, turning to sales as a Mary Kay beauty consultant.

"I am pushing to make it a full-time job," said the 49-year-old Watson,
who hosts parties at her Antioch home, selling beauty items from facial
creams to lipstick.

It's a choice more people are making as the state's unemployment rate flirts with the 10 percent level and employers cut back on other
workers' hours or pay, analysts say. Instead of earning a weekly
paycheck, people like Watson try to make enough money in commissions
or, in some cases, from bonuses based on recruiting others into their
ranks.Already,
several direct-sales companies are reporting steep increases in new
recruits interested in home-based sales; the category has grown into a
more than $30 billion a year industry.

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